Qantas Air Turnback: QF5, SYD to Singapore
 

AAP reporting QF5 turned back:
Qantas plane forced to turn around after technical issue

Stop the press!

Run it front page nationwide tomorrow!

:ugh:

The Qantas website shows that it departed again at 2100 and will arrive in Singapore just under 4 hours late wrt scheduled arrival time.

It sounds like it's not a particularly newsworthy event but the way the media carries on these days, they'll print anything.

Wishful thinking seeing it is only 1920 in Sydney!

just out of curiosity, what exactly happens with a turnaround? I can see that QF5 is/was a B744 a/c and would have theoretically been at MTOW or near there. Now from my basic understanding (and I mean basic), isn't MLW usually much lower than MTOW such that they'd have to dump fuel or fly around for a few hours to burn it off? (this is just out of interest, is all). If not, what would they do?

Cheers

How embarassing that the media go into a frenzy over a nothing event - mind you, if it happened an hour later (or next week when it is dark at 6pm), there would be no cameras so there is no story.

I can't believe guys like Peter Overton let this sort of thing make the news - I think I saw him cringe when he was reading the autocue.

Correct, it depends on the fuel load & ZFW for the sector whether you are above above MLW prior to takeoff.
The B744 has a fuel jettison system allowing a speedy reduction to MLW.

2GB News quoted somebody on the ground at Cronulla seeing smoke and flames coming from one of the engines.

Who gives a flying f#*k.
Non - event,
Thread closed please.........

Given the moist conditions in Sydney this evening, more than likely a vapour trail off the trailing edge!:rolleyes:

Can't wait for morning TV news :yuk: no doubt they will find some hysterical "screeching BIMBO" for the ineviatble quote "I thought I was going to die":ugh:

As a kid in the '50s it wasn't uncommon to see Connies, DC6s etc coming in with one prop feathered, but I never remember hearing anything about it on the news. I'd guess this is much less frequent with jets, and probably of less consequence, but there seems to be a constant demand for 'news' about anything out of the ordinary.

Dam crew, flicking their butts out the windows again!! This has to stop! :=

So was that the T/C or C/C with their butts out the window? :} :E

Regards,
BH.

Did they have TV back in those days? IIRC TV was only only introduced in 1956 in Australia. :E

.. back in the olden days we had wireless, mate ... The Goon Show and all those other rooly great shows ...

Don't forget "Life with Dexter" John! :}

Had a gut load of this topic sensationalised all over Shy News this evening.

It really is a non event. If someone will confirm the 744 has departed again, I'll close this thread.

Plane is u/s and pax have been off loaded on to another a/c

Channel 9 this morning was embarassing. Yes, they had the scared passenger (a young women with picture of course) telling how she feared for her life. And they actually had an interview with a kid (who would have been 15) who thought he saw the "big flames". :yuk: So embarassing it isn't funny.

I could be wrong, but it looks to me that either number #2 or #3 engine was shut down for the landing. I noticed from the Channel 7 vision this morning that reverse was only used on #1 and #4, it was hard to see but definately #2 and possibly #3 were not in reverse.